The Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health promotes mental health for all New Yorkers

Learn more about NYC 988 (Formerly NYC Well)

The #988Lifeline is here to support you. No matter what‘s on your mind—and no matter when you want to talk. Connect with someone who is ready to listen and support you.

How to help someone who needs mental healthcare

As New Yorkers, we look out for each other. If you want to help someone who needs mental healthcare, you can. Get started with our new guide, produced with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and NYC Health + Hospitals. The guide walks you through how to get mental health support for anyone, at any level of need – including what to know, where to look, and who to call.

Free trainings for social services providers

The Academy for Community Behavioral Health provides training, coaching, and technical support that equip social service providers to proactively address behavioral health. Courses focus on relevant, actionable behavioral health tools. They range from brief trainings to comprehensive certificate programs, and support growth for individuals, teams, and organizations.

The Academy’s free courses are open to all New York City nonprofit social service providers, including community-based organizations and City or State agencies.

NYC has a new response to mental health emergencies

Hear directly from multiple licensed social workers on what it’s like to be on the cutting edge of mental health crisis response.

B-HEARD is expanding

For the first time ever in New York City, mental and physical health professionals are responding to 911 mental health calls through the B-HEARD pilot program that launched on June 6, 2021.

In its first year of operation, B-HEARD has had a promising start, expanding from East Harlem to Central and West Harlem, then to Washington Heights, Inwood, and parts of the South Bronx.

NYC Employee Assistance Program

OCMH joins the NYC Employee Assistance Program (EAP) in expressing our sadness and concern for the war in Israel and Palestine, and understands how many of our NYC colleagues have very personal concerns for the events taking place.

Many have family and friends directly impacted and we are keeping them in our thoughts, prayers, hearts and minds. As always, please be reminded that you do not have to be alone.

The NYC EAP is here to support you and your family members. Please keep EAP in mind as a source of help.

Call or email to speak to an EAP counselor.

All EAP services are available Monday through Thursday, 8am – 7pm
and Friday, 8am – 5pm.

Please contact the EAP by email at  eap@olr.nyc.gov
or call and leave a message at 212-306-7660.